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Rolled Rubber In New Drum?

During the last few years of working at MatsMatsMats.com, I have had the good fortune of talking to more than a few interesting customers.Â I was contacted by KeithÂ Â Pickens of Percussion Design LLC this week to talk about ourÂ rolled rubberÂ (which has many uses, most notably as gym flooring).Â Their company is designing a new type of electronic drum that circumvents triggers and instead uses the natural acoustic resonance of the shell and a rubber head to create a natural sound that also triggers an electrical signal into an amplifier or sound module.Â In other words, where traditional electric drums essentially work like a play button that when struck triggers a drum sound via a module, this drum creates it’s own electric-acoustic signal that can be directly plugged into an amplifier.

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Since they are working on prototypes, they were looking at our 1/8″ thick recycled rubber product (or possibly one of our anti fatigue mats) Â to use as part of the head of the drum which is the part that the drum strikes directly. This is very exciting as I’ve personally been to the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show several times and have gotten to see all kinds of new, cutting edge, and sometimes very strangeÂ musical instruments. For more information on their work over at Percussion Design LLC, feel free to visit www.percussiondesign.com.Â